Huawei vs. Nvidia. China challenged the US with new Ascend 910C chips: what will change

Advanced Chinese companies have received processors and are already conducting tests.

< p>Huawei Technologies, a Chinese company under US sanctions, is testing a new Ascend 910C artificial intelligence chip that could replace Nvidia's products. This has become known to the South China Morning Post.

According to two sources informed of the situation, Huawei has offered samples of its Ascend 910C processors to major server companies in China for testing and configuring the equipment. Another source, a distributor of Huawei, said that the same chips are given to large Internet companies that are big customers of Nvidia. Huawei did not respond to a request to comment on the situation.

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According to SCMP, Chinese companies are looking for alternatives to Nvidia's high-performance chips so that the country can use its own semiconductors and not depend on US restrictions. US authorities have banned Nvidia from supplying its advanced graphics chips to China, including the popular A100 model.

Huawei is positioning the Ascend 910B as a direct competitor to the Nvidia A100, and its chips have indeed become a good alternative in many industries. According to the company itself, in 2023, its Ascend solutions were used to train about half of the more than 70 largest language models in China. Now Huawei has developed a new model — Ascend 910C.

The Chinese technology giant carefully hides its progress in chip development. However, the media speculates that Huawei is creating a support system for the domestic AI industry. Huawei Chairman Eric Xu Zhijun said a week ago that the company has created two projects in the field of computing in the past five years to create another option that can meet the needs of enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence development.